Hensleigh House Including Walls Of Enclosed Garden

Hensleigh House is a small country house dating from about 1700, with possible elements from an earlier structure. It is constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with dry slate hipped roofs featuring modillion cornices and some pedimented dormers. Brick stacks are present, embellished with moulded and dentilled cornices. The house originally had a double-depth plan, plus a service wing at the rear, projecting towards the rear and right-hand side. Parts of the rear wing were demolished in the 1960s.

The main front is symmetrical with a five-window arrangement across two storeys and an attic. The original 24-pane hornless sash windows retain thick glazing bars and are set flush with the wall surface; two windows are blind. The central doorway, restored after Victorian alterations were removed, features an original spoked fanlight above a six-panel door, and is sheltered by a distyle Tuscan wooden porch. The left-hand (garden) front comprises a six-window range with alternate blind windows; original sashes are present above mostly rebuilt early 19th-century canted bays in the second and fourth bays. The right-hand front, over a basement, has mostly blind openings, with a tall stair window in the fourth bay from the left, and original sashes in the bay to the right. The rear elevation is largely blind, except for a 12-pane sash positioned to the right of centre. The service wing has a two-window front with 12-pane sashes and a patterned overlight above a panelled door on its left side. A three-bay opening with Tuscan columns is visible on the garden front of the service wing.

The southeast room contains a fine Baroque moulded and carved plaster ceiling with a quatrefoil central panel, foliage scrolls, putti, and two eagles with laurel wreaths. It also has a bolection-moulded marble chimney piece and bolection-moulded oak panelling. The northeast room has early 19th-century window shutters with inner beaded detail, an early 19th-century Greek Revival cornice, panelling in the style of around 1600 (incorporating some genuine pieces), and an early 19th-century open-well staircase.

The property includes attached rubble kitchen garden walls with dressed stone arched doorways. Hensleigh House was the residence of Ambrose Brewin in the 19th century. The house features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.